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This is my preferred pasta cooking technique because it's fast, and I don't have to run the pasta through a strainer. I've still yet to figure out how to use the starchy water for sauces, though.

Unless you know that the power source you use for rechargeable batteries is coming from a sustainable source, you're still contributing to the energy problem, no matter how minuscule a drain it may be.

Additionally, if this keyboard is $10 more than the official one, then it's $5 cheaper than the official keyboard plus the rechargeable batteries.

Also, if products like this sell well, other companies will design similar products.

You probably don't have to ditch your current keyboard and run out and buy this, but if you're in the market for a new one, this would probably be a good choice.

You spend $40 on a glorified bucket because it looks nice.

zomg I love Hello Kitty so much.

AFAIK, feminine products are compostable, though you'll want to ensure that you either bury them deep in your pile, throughly cover them with a carbon cover material, or both.

I'm not entirely sure what feminie products are made of, but I'm informed that you'll have to pick strips of plastic out of your compost if you do this.

Alright, did some quick Google Fu and found that the plates will typically be made from bagasse, which should compost readily. It's a "brown" (carbon) so the food scraps should balance it out. Shredding up the plates will probably be beneficial for ensuring speedy decomposition.

Cups will probably be made out of PLA which will probably take quite a while to break down, so if you put it in a home bin, you'll have to pick it out and put it in the next batch of compost for a few cycles. Again, shredding it up will probably expedite the process.

Is there anything you can do with these that you couldn't do with a shemagh? Or any other piece of cloth?

All of my research suggests that a carbon cover material (ie saw dust) is ideal for covering any odors related to compost materials. I'm currently experimenting with shredded paper.

All of these efforts to make the flush toilet more eco-friendly are really just stop-gap, band-aid solutions.

The best bet would be to get rid of the flush toilet altogether. When you really think about it, what we're doing is taking clean, drinkable water and literally crapping in it. Then we're using more clean, drinkable water to flush it into pipes that carry it all to a treatment plant, where energy and resources are utlized to clean out the crap we put into the clean water.

What we end up with is water that's been heavily chemically treated going out into the waterways and ending up back in our tap.

Composting toilet systems are the way to go.

It's a pretty big adjustment to be sure, and I have yet to make the change myself, but I'm hoping to see the day where I'll never have to crap in a bowl of drinking water.

Need more tech specs. My mom is allergic to the spectrum emitted by CFLs, so they're not an option in my parents' house.They claim this gives off different light. If that's true, they might be a viable alternative.

I think I'll probably be leaning toward LEDs, though.